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Simone De Beauvoir Inspirational Quotes (213)
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There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.
Simone de Beauvoir
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
Simone de Beauvoir
I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.
Simone de Beauvoir
It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.
Simone de Beauvoir
At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
Simone de Beauvoir
The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.
Simone de Beauvoir
Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
Simone de Beauvoir
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
Simone de Beauvoir
…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.
Simone de Beauvoir
Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
Simone de Beauvoir
There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.
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If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.
Simone de Beauvoir
I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
Simone de Beauvoir
My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.
Simone de Beauvoir
It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.
Simone de Beauvoir
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
Simone de Beauvoir
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